[Sigia-l] Product Indexes - Good Examples?

[Liz Danzico]

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but 37signals offers a nice
index in table format. It's not a traditional product index, but for them,
usability reviews really are part of their product line:
http://www.37signals.com/dnf/snapshots/index.php

They allow sorting by Company, Description, Category, Good, and Bad.

- Liz


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Merholz [mailto:peterme at peterme.com]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:38 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Product Indexes - Good Examples?


Hey all--

I'm researching product indexes, and am struck by how few take advantage of
being on the web.

I'm familiar with the very good example at PeopleSoft.com
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/prod_index.asp

But I'm hoping for something that goes beyond simple alphabetizing to
include other elements.

I'm thinking that it would be nice to have an index in a table, with columns
perhaps being "product line" or "free trial" or whatever. Ideally you'd be
able to sort on those columns, but at the least you could visually scan for
things in those columns.
(To some degree, I want to imbue an index with a touch of facet-y goodness.)

However, in searching "Products A-Z" or "Product Index" on Google, I'm
getting the same old alphabetical lists.

Thoughts? Pointers?

--peter

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